Lucky, you are very welcome and thank you for correcting me on the spelling! I surely wish by spelling it wrong it would go away! What an intresting theory,hmm. lol The correction has been made to the poll.

In my 2005 Susan Love book she lists the following types.

Infiltrating ductal 70%

Invasive lobular 10%

Medullary 6.0%

Mucinous or colloid 3.0%

Tubular 1.2%

Adenocystic 0.4%

Papillary 1.0%

Carcinosarcoma 0.1%

Paget's disease 3.0%

Inflammatory 1.0%

In situ breast cancer 5.0%

ductal 2.5%

lobular 2.5%

Per the book *There can be combinations of any of these types.

Actually there are 13 in this list, my mistake and apologies to those who have in situ breast cancer. Going thru chemo right now and guess I was't counting very well.

Shalom, my book says that "adenocarcinoma" is a cancer arising in gland forming tissue. Breast cancer is a type of adenocarcinoma.

Poorly differentiated is reported after the pathologist looks at your tumor and the info is found on your path report.

"The pathologist who sees wild-looking (poorly differentiated) cells will predict that such cells are usually more aggressive, while the cells that look more normal (well differentiated) are usually less agressive. The cells in between are called moderatly differentiated. But poorly differentiated cells aren't a sign of doom-the fact that they look wild doesn't guarantee they'll act that way or can't be treated. Most brest cancers are either modertaly or poorly differentiated, but many women who have these cells do fine."

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